Crisis Response Initiative Additional Facility – Afghanistan

DCA received additional funding from IFAD to implement a project called the Crisis Response Initiative - Afghanistan (CRI). The CRI project is designed based on the socio-economic impacts of the long years of conflict and the pandemic, the effects of the near collapse of the financial institutions, and the ripple effects associated with the Ukraine crisis. CRI resources were used to finance the production, processing, and marketing activities of beneficiaries in 17 provinces where the target groups are predominant and whose livelihoods are in the livestock dairy industry, poultry, lamb fattening, wool, and cashmere production. The overall goals and objectives of the project are to minimize the impacts of the Ukraine war crisis ripple effects on 66,700 vulnerable settled and nomadic pastoralist households in Afghanistan protect and restore the livelihood assets and production capacity and facilitate access to market and financing.